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49ers Roster-Move Analysis as Players Report for Training Camp

Game on. Almost.
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49ers Roster-Move Analysis as Players Report for Training Camp
49ers Roster-Move Analysis as Players Report for Training Camp

The last of the 49ers players reported to the team facility for Covid-19 testing on Tuesday. So the 49ers announced a series of roster moves roughly two weeks before they have their first practice.

On the Physically Unable to Perform (PUP) List, the 49ers placed:

  1. C Weston Richburg (knee)
  2. DE Ronald Blair (knee)
  3. DT Kentavius Street (knee)
  4. DT Jullian Taylor (knee)
  5. WR Shawn Poindexter (knee)

On the Active/Non-Football Injury (NFI) List, the 49ers placed:

  1. WR Deebo Samuel (foot)
  2. CB D.J. Reed (pec)

The 49ers waived the following players:

  1. QB Broc Rutter
  2. LB Joey Alfieri
  3. CB Jermaine Kelly
  4. S Derrick Kindred
  5. OL Ray Smith

The 49ers also placed wide receiver Richie James Jr. on the Reserve/Covid-19 list, waived rookie undrafted-free-agent wide receiver Chris Finke with a non-football injury, and waived defensive tackle Willie Henry Jr. with a non-football illness.

Here are my takeaways from these transactions:

One: Surprisingly few Covid-19 cases, which is a good sign.

Two: Apparently no one opted out of the season. Another good sign.

Three: Players on PUP and NFI will start training camp rehabbing but can return. If they’re still on PUP or NFI after the final cutdown date, then they must miss the first six weeks of the season.

Three: Of all the players currently on the PUP list, I’m guessing Jullian Taylor is the one most likely to stay on it when the regular season starts. He tore his ACL during a late-December practice and probably won’t be ready to play when the season starts.

Four: Will Kentavius Street ever be healthy? He had a torn ACL when the 49ers drafted him in 2018 and still hasn’t recovered.

Five: Neither Trent Taylor, Jalen Hurd nor Jerick McKinnon were on the injured lists. And the 49ers have high hopes for all three. They’re as healthy as they’ll ever be. Another good sign.

Game on. Almost.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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